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Engagement: Olivia Magowan, Dr. Nicholas John Shea

The engagement of Olivia Magowan to Dr. Nicholas John Shea has been announced by her parents, Nina and Mark Magowan of New York.

The bride-to-be’s parents, art and illustrated book publishers, are principals of The Vendome Press in New York.

Her paternal grandparents are the late Robert A. and Doris M. Magowan, who lived at 589 N. County Road on property inherited from Charles E. Merrill.

She is the great-granddaughter of Charles E. Merrill, the co-founder of Merrill Lynch, and is the great niece of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill.

Her great-great-grandfather, Dr. Charles Morton Merrill, established a practice as a physician and drug store owner at 325 Datura St. in 1900.

The future bridegroom is the son of Dr. Katherine G. Nickerson and Dr. Steven J.C. Shea of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Dr. Nickerson, a rheumatologist, is a professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and is vice chairman for education in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Steven Shea, an internist and epidemiologist, is the Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and senior vice dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

The future bride, 31, earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard College. She was most recently the associate fashion director for Ready-to-Wear at Bloomingdale’s in New York.

The bridegroom-to-be, 29, graduated cum laude from Columbia College with a joint degree in economics and mathematics and also earned and a master of science degree in biomedical engineering from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

He received his medical degree on Wednesday from the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University, and will begin his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital on July 1.

The wedding will take place next month in New York.

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